#speech

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #always #book #chicago #child

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. ↗

— John McGahern

#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#fire #old-timer #remember #remember when #setting

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#arrogance #his #insensitivity #leaves #once

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#asked #because #loss #make #mark

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#been #before #budget #ceiling #civil

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#hate #i #idea #speech #stop

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ↗

— William Safire

#care #caused #i #ignorance #know

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#believe #campuses #college #college campuses #controversial

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. ↗

— Sophocles

#much #one thing #speech #thing #well-timed